Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-06-17
Mr. Hines's Poem.

. rare and peaceful days.
mat swift, with unevcntful trend,
Glide down the lapsing years:
my soothing calm, with low. sweet voice,
blds grateful hearts 10 praise.
Has sound Of hercest strife
!. er rent the quiet summer air.
Has pulling smoke obscuredv
VOW, fresh and pure. it, wouing touch
Charms Natures thrubbing life.
The bright, unchsngiug sun
Ger uuSrnthrd n mes shines free.
Homes rich In social JOYS.
save when the unrcleuting doom
Lie waning race hath won.
II.
ON that famed Grecian plain Icrowned
Where Ihebcs's immortal band was
4 marble lion stands;
Though worn with age. still keeps it, watch
Above heroic slain
And of some builded form.
Down Time $ eer broadening vista,
Marks era Ia its cuur@e: lgraud
Great thoughts and deeds whose tetnplp.
survive decay and storm
In dim relief they show.
ar in the realm u fading past
The minds emerging way:
Aud many an age, long drifting dust
Hume With mystic glow.
H.
Der this fair Northern land
N"w records Of truth 4 might arise
IN grateful honor wrought:
Nith sternest gral'e, in varied form,
All eloquent they stand
They tell " faith in kind:
or love FOR country and for home
Deep wrought within the heart:
How peaceful men FOR Nations life
Their sweetest joys resigned;
They tell " bitter pain.
The weary march, the battles r.ek
90 wounds. ~ anguish death:
~ captive souls benumb.d Ia woe
More dread than iron rain.
They tell ~ mothers tenrs:
The fathers fond. now buried hope.
The widowed, mourning heart:
'I trembling age G-reft ~ staff
or tender, orphaned years.
~ bonds now cast away:
pltt"d hearts euDobled souls
An cnslaved race made free
,f millions on Whuse night Of woe
ph"ned ever cheering day
They cite heroic deeds.
And show the sacritcial flame
Which lighted sacred cause
A pregnant Gauss Tor human veal
Which gluWs u time r-cedrs
They SPEAK FOR faith in God.
VINO oNrrrules edrth's narrow way
With broad, eternal truth
Who meets the awful grievOus wrong
with scuurging. Christening rod
They ask for noblrr aims.
And point the way to fairer fields
~ action and of thought
They ask for justice. mercy love
The grace which Christ prUclaims
"
Here We hav, buildtd ours.
And ON this brave, ancestral day
Have met 10 dedicate
To wreathe Ger later hallowed dust
Memory fair, sweet flowers
. Thou who made thes.. hills.
IN liberty our country bless,
II wrong shall yet asssil,
Inspire her children still again
To Danish all her ills
This Scared and war-worn throne,
Whose rank. fast thinning. vet aligns.
For il We crave Thy boon:
May duty's call still fire each heart
The hame each soul make strong
W. dedicate ii, first.
70 Freedom and the sacred rights
hich God gave unto men:
lnallen right 10 dwell in prace
Hy greedy might uncurst
To undivided States,
lshr- jewels that shall brightly deck
rus mighty nations brow
W hru time has changed some falls. beliefs
And buried ancient hates
To brave. devoted men,
Who from this honur,-d town went forth.
kifh ofering 10 the right.
The living and the Hurtyred throng
hch came not back again
To wives and mothers dear,
Who hade Gud-sp,-ed with fearful hearts
Their burden cast on hope:
To all the holy memories
Which saddei and vet cheer.
10 aspirations bright
Mhich, GROWING man with highest good.
Would make heaven Of earth
A pathway light with fllg-nt rays
In di'nmrst futures night
VI.
May all Of truth So grand
which clearly speaks from kindred forms
Inspire our GIFT D. Us,
Aud for long ages may il tell
bf Freedoms greatest stand
oh. let us oft draw near.
And IN the shadow of this shrine
Plight holy VOWS anew
To Liberty. to Truth, 10 God
With souls confessed and clear